News (Noticias) Tagged ‘Latina Lista’

It seems passport officials didn’t believe she was an American citizen even though the family supplied documents like records of her elementary school, certificate of Baptism, Death Certificates of both parents, and the property listed under the woman’s father’s name in Raymondville Texas. The officials said that the midwife listed on the birth certificate couldn’t possibly have assisted in her birth (how they know, I’m not sure) but the family basically feels the government is accusing the mother of lying about being a citizen.”*

We can only hope that it doesn’t come to that point, but if the situation worsens where people will have to be evacuated for their own safety, we hope that common sense prevails and the appreciation of the value of human life surpasses the enforcement of any misguided policy, no matter if it is the law or not.”*

As the presidential candidates stumped their way across the country from LULAC to NCLR, delivering a slightly altered version of a speech they gave the week before, Latino voters, as all voters, are faced with an interesting dilemma.”*

When it comes to immigration enforcement, outside of ICE or the Department of Homeland Security, only one other law enforcement department has become as synonymous with conducting hunts for undocumented immigrants — Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, or the one name that embodies the infamous department, Sheriff Joe Arpaio.”*

A big part of politics, aside from the candidates stumping from city to city, are the campaign’s television advertisements. In some cases, these advertisements outlast the candidates and the race itself.

Usually, the advertisements spotlight the candidates’ interaction with the public and the issues of the day. The advertisements should be vehicles to move the campaign along.”*

Juana Villegas DeLaPaz, a Nashville, Tennessee resident, should be happily tired these days since the recent birth of her fourth child. And Villegas DeLaPaz is tired but it’s one derived of an emotional ordeal that has drained and depressed this 33-year-old mother — not because of her undocumented status, but because of what local law enforcement subjected her to as she was about to deliver her baby.”*